My dad was a huge railway “buff” and we kind of inherited a bit of info from him. Also

being bought up in Darlington helped. Dad took us out to Bank Top Station to see the last Deltic to go through before the HS125 started and we spent many a day at heritage railways. Although he was a steam fan he appreciated my love of the diesels, his earliest diesels were the GWR railcars he travelled on when he lived in Dorset for a short time after the war. Like most things transport related, to him they were “fabulous”!

Posted By: Augustus Pablo on November 5th 2022 at 22:36:32

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Favourite diesel locomotive? (General Chat) - Augustus Pablo, Nov 5, 21:26:34
- Class 47 aka Brush type 4, saw them a lot as a kid on main line around Southampton (General Chat) - watfordcanary, Nov 6, 10:01:25
- 43s. Beautiful (n/m) (General Chat) - Trent_Canary, Nov 5, 22:54:34
  - They were great (General Chat) - SimonOTBC, Nov 5, 22:59:09
- Thomas (n/m) (General Chat) - Legacy Fan, Nov 5, 22:43:23
  - fail (n/m) (General Chat) - Lentil Weaver, Nov 5, 22:47:40
- Diesel 10 (General Chat) - CWC, Nov 5, 22:24:51
- 37 (n/m) (General Chat) - Chris Peacock, Nov 5, 22:13:03
  - 👍👍 (n/m) (General Chat) - Augustus Pablo, Nov 5, 22:23:19
- Class 37’s I love the noise! I have always liked the 08 shunters (General Chat) - Mr Perfect, Nov 5, 22:00:27
  - Have you seen the DRS class 37’s doing the freight runs through Brundall? I think it’s (General Chat) - Augustus Pablo, Nov 5, 22:22:33
    - No, but it was good when they were running to GY with the MK3 coaches (General Chat) - Ken Breadstick, Nov 5, 23:05:46
      - Indeed, crazy, the top and tail 37’s with two coaches! (n/m) (General Chat) - Augustus Pablo, Nov 5, 23:41:31
  - Nice, “Baby Deltics” but the backbone of the British railways (n/m) (General Chat) - Augustus Pablo, Nov 5, 22:04:55
- Class 40 or the Scottish 37s (n/m) (General Chat) - Worthing Yellow, Nov 5, 21:54:52
- My grandfather, my fathers father, used to drive the train from KL to London (General Chat) - shoddy, Nov 5, 21:50:58
  - they were probably 37's (n/m) (General Chat) - Chris Peacock, Nov 5, 22:13:50
  - KL to KC (n/m) (General Chat) - Augustus Pablo, Nov 5, 22:02:06
    - I'm not sure AP (General Chat) - shoddy, Nov 5, 22:11:13
      - My dad was a huge railway “buff” and we kind of inherited a bit of info from him. Also (General Chat) - Augustus Pablo, Nov 5, 22:36:32
      - They should put them out to tender (n/m) (General Chat) - Augustus Pablo, Nov 5, 22:24:52
- Deltic (General Chat) - Oscarnary, Nov 5, 21:49:28
  - Black Watch for me, but good call (n/m) (General Chat) - Augustus Pablo, Nov 5, 21:57:55
- Edward was always my fave. (n/m) (General Chat) - Huge Small, Nov 5, 21:43:45
  - He was a steam train (n/m) (General Chat) - Jumbo1, Nov 5, 21:46:27
- BR Class 40 of course. The Kenny McLean of locos. (n/m) (General Chat) - Captain Bligh, Nov 5, 21:36:05
  - What , it goes missing in stray passes? (n/m) (General Chat) - Jumbo1, Nov 5, 21:38:08
- HS4000 Kestrel - like me, voted the best looking in its class (n/m) (General Chat) - Jumbo1, Nov 5, 21:30:27
  - A one off but slightly overweight for use in the uk? (n/m) (General Chat) - Augustus Pablo, Nov 5, 21:39:04
    - most powerful and unique, I think you mean! (n/m) (General Chat) - Jumbo1, Nov 5, 21:40:18
      - Hehe. (n/m) (General Chat) - Augustus Pablo, Nov 5, 21:44:13

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